The Lingerie Football League on Thursday announced it will forgo the 2012 U.S. season in order to focus on expanding the league into Canada and Australia, and to adjust the schedule to spring and summer games. Fans of the Seattle Mist lingerie team will have to wait another year to see their favorite athletes running around in underwear and padding.

Updated 3:25 p.m.: LFL Commissioner Mitchell Mortaza has released a statement, hoping to clarify the move as a season delay instead of a cancellation.

“Since premiering in 2009, LFL United States has drawn incredible success which has included sell-out crowds, aggressive franchise expansion and record television ratings, all of which leading to being called the fastest- growing sports league in the U.S. as per Businessweek. Despite this success, we feel that our U.S. franchise can reach greater heights with a shift of our regular season schedule from a fall and winter format to spring and summer schedule,” he said.

“Thus in 2012, we have officially moved, not suspended the LFL U.S. season to April 2013. This move in schedule enables our LFL US teams extra preparation which ultimately will greatly improve the product on the field in 2013.”

In the meantime, some U.S. players will be going on a promotional “All-Fantasy Tour” through Mexico, Australia and possibly Asia later this year, The Associated Press reports.

Lingerie football will continue uninterrupted in Canada, where the LFL is launching a new division this fall. Vancouver was selected for the LFL’s second team in Canada, the B.C. Angels.

The Toronto Triumph have moved from the U.S. division, and the LFL founded the Saskatoon Sirens and the Regina Rage for a total of four Canadian teams this fall.

The LFL plans to expand even further, into Australia in 2013 and Europe in 2014. Once all the leagues are established, the LFL plans to hold a big championship in Sao Paulo, Brazil, every four years.

Meanwhile, this seems like as good a time as any to note that Angela Rypien, daughter of former WSU and Washington Redskins quarterback Mark Rypien, is no longer a quarterback for the Seattle Mist. She is moving to the Baltimore Charm, where she’ll ostensibly start in April 2013.